I don't see how so many self-identifying classical liberals could support the Constitution when it's not classical liberal, let alone libertarian.
The Articles of Confederation that was ratified was somewhere between classical liberalism and no govt. It was meant to be a utility to minimize pain and to maximize liberty and it guaranteed every individual equality before itself while the Constitution did no such thing. The 10th Amendment was the last amendment that was not against equality before the law because all the rest are pro-centralization of power, except the 21st (maybe, I haven't read it... I just know it ended prohibition but I don't know if it gave the States back their power that was taken by the 18th).
The DC representation amendment was a disaster... a central capitol never should've been created in the first place, but to give those people representation when they're the worst lobbyists in existence makes it even more insane. The Amendment prohibiting the poll tax is terrible because it gave people the mentality that voting was a right and because some people shouldn't be allowed to vote... their votes should be coupled with that of someone else. The 15th Amendment was bad because it centrally guaranteed more people the right to vote based upon collectivism and it was to punish the South more than to help the blacks... the North wanted nothing more than to shove their dick up the Southerners' anuses to show who was boss all while taking advantage of the blacks as an excuse. The 19th Amendment sucked because it pretty much gave people the mentality that voting was a universal right (it's not, it's a privilege) all while increasing centralization of power.
The 17th didn't really change that much because it only took a majority of the Senate. In other words, the minority States who didn't vote Hamiltonian Senators to Washington still had to be forced to unionize with even the slimmest of majorities.
Everyone knows my feelings on the 14th and also that the 13th was worthless because it didn't allow the blacks self determination... it would've done the blacks and the rest of society much better if the pro-slavery parts of Article 4 had been repealed and replaced with nothing rather than Congressional enforcement (John C Calhoun, the only Democrat to vote against the pro-Slavery MexAm War, favored total abolition of federal involvement with slavery). Jim Crow would never have happened if the 13th hadn't been ratified.
Last but not least, the 16th Amendment was promoted as the most redistributive which is a lie because the Constitution already allowed for the most potentially egalitarian tax in the world which was a property tax.
So starting with the 1st Article of the U.S. Constitution, all of our "rights" have been at the expense of someone else. It made us dependent on Congress and on everyone else for no good reason.
The Articles of Confederation that was ratified was somewhere between classical liberalism and no govt. It was meant to be a utility to minimize pain and to maximize liberty and it guaranteed every individual equality before itself while the Constitution did no such thing. The 10th Amendment was the last amendment that was not against equality before the law because all the rest are pro-centralization of power, except the 21st (maybe, I haven't read it... I just know it ended prohibition but I don't know if it gave the States back their power that was taken by the 18th).
The DC representation amendment was a disaster... a central capitol never should've been created in the first place, but to give those people representation when they're the worst lobbyists in existence makes it even more insane. The Amendment prohibiting the poll tax is terrible because it gave people the mentality that voting was a right and because some people shouldn't be allowed to vote... their votes should be coupled with that of someone else. The 15th Amendment was bad because it centrally guaranteed more people the right to vote based upon collectivism and it was to punish the South more than to help the blacks... the North wanted nothing more than to shove their dick up the Southerners' anuses to show who was boss all while taking advantage of the blacks as an excuse. The 19th Amendment sucked because it pretty much gave people the mentality that voting was a universal right (it's not, it's a privilege) all while increasing centralization of power.
The 17th didn't really change that much because it only took a majority of the Senate. In other words, the minority States who didn't vote Hamiltonian Senators to Washington still had to be forced to unionize with even the slimmest of majorities.
Everyone knows my feelings on the 14th and also that the 13th was worthless because it didn't allow the blacks self determination... it would've done the blacks and the rest of society much better if the pro-slavery parts of Article 4 had been repealed and replaced with nothing rather than Congressional enforcement (John C Calhoun, the only Democrat to vote against the pro-Slavery MexAm War, favored total abolition of federal involvement with slavery). Jim Crow would never have happened if the 13th hadn't been ratified.
Last but not least, the 16th Amendment was promoted as the most redistributive which is a lie because the Constitution already allowed for the most potentially egalitarian tax in the world which was a property tax.
So starting with the 1st Article of the U.S. Constitution, all of our "rights" have been at the expense of someone else. It made us dependent on Congress and on everyone else for no good reason.
He should read the ever infallible Dr. Thomas J. DiLorenzo's works and then he'll see exactly how egalitarian Jefferson was. He should also realize that Jefferson repealed the silver standard act because it was a govt standard and it was to crash FBUS and that Jefferson was more of a proto-Austrian rather than more of an egalitarian.
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